Henry Bowman

Ancestor Number

A012891 »

Date of Birth

1742

Place of Birth

Germany

Date of Death

Before May 18, 1816

Place of Death

North Hunington Township, Westmoreland County

Spouse(s)

Catherine Conkle

Children

Margaret, John, Adam, Barbara, Catherine, Sarah, Mary, Peter, and Henry

American Revolution Service

1675 -1783 Private, then Lt. in the 1st Battalion Lancaster County, Militia under the command of Capt. Edmond Lintner

State of Service

Pennsylvania

Donor

Iowa Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Patriot of Carolyn DeLay Member #912155

Henry Baughman (Bowman), born in 1742, and his wife Catherine Conkle, born in 1745, both emigrated from Germany with their parents, the former aged four years, the latter aged two years, and settled in the “Blue Ridge” region of Pennsylvania, 30 miles from Lancaster City.

Here they were married around 1763 and raised a family of nine children: Margaret, John, Adam, Barbara, Catharine, Sarah, Mary, Peter and Henry. Henry was killed by the falling of a tree at the age of 22. All the rest were married and raised families, except Peter and Margaret. The family moved from the Blue Ridge and settled in the eastern part of North Huntingdon Township, seven and a half miles from Greensburg, where Bowman purchased 600 acres of land at 20 shillings per acre. The land in Westmoreland County was in the region of Indian territory and suffered deprivation. He was thus exonerated from paying taxes on that land.

Bowman served from 1775–1783 as a Private, then Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Lancaster County Militia under the command of Captain Edmond Lintner.

He died before May 18, 1816, when his will was probated in North Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, at the age of 72. Catherine died after October 5, 1814, when his will was made, as she was named in the will. They are believed to be buried in the Harrold Zion Lutheran Cemetery next to Harrold’s Reformed Church in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, at the rear of the church on the east side marked by an old stone headstone and a Revolutionary War marker. Few people visit that old area now, but there still those that remember his service. Sixteen people have honored Bowman by claiming him as their Patriot, their Revolutionary War ancestor. He will always be remembered now as Iowa’s representative of the DAR on the Schuylkill River Trail connecting Philadelphia to Valley Forge on the DAR Pathway of the Patriots.